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Laurie R. Blank (Emory): Debates and Dichotomies: Exploring the Presumptions Underlying Contentions About the Geography of Armed Conflict. Boaz Atzili and Joseph K. Young (American): For Better and Worse: Border Fixity, State Capacity, and the Geography of War. Sarah E. Light (Pennsylvania): The Military-Environmental Complex. Scott K. Taylor on weather and war, reconsidered: What the calamities of the seventeenth century can teach today’s scholars about climate change, war, and policy-making. Kyle W. Fonay on guerrilla warfare: Two takes, Mao vs. Guevara. Shawn Brimley reviewsOut of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen. It once ruled the seas with the most powerful navy ever assembled, now Great Britain wants to dominate the next frontier of warfare: cyberspace (and more and more). What would a real cyberwar look like? Dark warnings exaggerate and distort the real risks. Is cyberwar really war? One thinker believes we’ve got it wrong — and that our category error could have real and dangerous consequences. Arthur Holland Michel interviews Peter W. Singer, author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. Drones in theory and in practice: Jeremy Davis reviewsKilling by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military. Don Franzen reviews Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin (and am interview). Robert Evans and Brandon Bryant on 6 myths about drone warfare you probably believe.

From Salon, Ronald Reagan and the occultist: Mitch Horowitz on how the Gipper's warm "morning in America" worldview was directly shaped by his reading of occult thinker Manly P. Hall. The Congressman who went off the grid: Roscoe Bartlett spent 20 years on Capitol Hill — now he lives in a remote cabin in the woods, prepping for doomsday. Inside the Right-wing love affair with conspiracy theories: CJ Werleman on explaining how the right-wing echo chamber feeds off of paranoid stories that have no basis in reality. Voucher-mania: Why the right is diseased (and out of ideas). How propaganda can slowly repair the image of an utterly disgraced public figure like George W. Bush. Matthew Brandon Wolfson reviewsDays of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker. Jim Newell on how New Hampshire Republicans are, in fact, pseudo-libertarian gun nuts. George J. Marlin reviewsTea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing by Samuel Gregg (and more on why Max Weber was wrong). From The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy on why the Tea Party can’t govern: A populist spin can’t save purely negative principles. GOP reformers stop being polite to Tea Party, start getting real. Beth Reinhard on the Return of the Welfare Queen: Republicans are launching a class war with racial undertones — and hurting the poor whites they'll need to win in 2014. The Republican Party is not a suicide pact: Just because the numbers currently look bad for a party doesn't mean that they're fixed in stone — parties can react, which, in the long run, is what makes them competitive. Roy Edroso on the 10 dumbest Rightblogger ideas of 2013, part 2.

Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski) and Davydd J. Greenwood (Cornell): Wake Up or Perish: Neo-Liberalism, the Social Sciences, and Salvaging the Public University. Nathan Goetting (Adrian): Racism by Degrees: Fisher v. University of Texas and the Fate of Diversity in American Education. How “race neutrality” can save affirmative action: James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan on Americans’ surprising commitment to fairness. Benjamin Winterhalter on the real reason law schools are raking in cash: The profession's in crisis, but the schools don't care — they're steeped in a toxic, hyper-capitalist worldview. The Great Stratification: Jeffrey J. Williams on how the changing role of the professor has created a huge new subclass of academic worker. Andrea Peterson on how one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research. Could digital college textbooks become free in the USA? This North Carolina campus was meant to show off the future of online education — it hasn't gone according to plan. Academics who defend Wall Street reap reward (and Felix Salmon on the non-scandal of Scott Irwin and Craig Pirrong). Cura te ipsum: Alex Rosenberg on how the problems of the humanities are self-inflicted wounds well recognized by their colleagues in other faculties. Who takes MOOCs? Surprising new data on what's supposed to be the future of higher ed. Hillel is cracking down on open debate, and it's scary: John Judis on what the campus organization's big rupture means for American Jews.